﻿﻿﻿One of the worst experiences you can go through is having a missing tooth. It doesn't matter if it's for two days or two weeks, whenever you see yourself in the mirror, you lose your mind. I had this experience almost two years ago when I had to have an infected tooth pulled. I could have had a bridge and crown take care of the problem but I wanted a permanent solution.

The dentist packed the hole up with medicine, and told me to wait a few days before returning for him to examine it. When I came back, he referred me to an implant specialist. This is when I was introduced to the network group known as thew Tooth Implant Pros. He had me call them up, and they had a partnership with a dentist near Ridgewood. The Pros have one dentist they partner with at any one time, and during my ordeal, this particular dentist was on Myrtle Ave. The Pros have since moved on to a new partner, however I can assure you - they screen their dentists very well before deciding to take them on as a partner.

I need to have the implant placed into my jawbone. This actually was as hard as it sounds. They had to do x-rays, and the whole bit, to determine if my jaw had the level of health needed to undergo this type of procedure. Once the doctor felt I was able to go through the procedure, we scheduled the surgery. Truth is you don't feel a thing until the pain meds run out about a week after the surgery is over. The pain is nothing more than soreness, but what i was told was that the dentist drilled into the bone, placed a metal post in the jaw, and closed everything back up.﻿

﻿﻿A few months later I went back, and the doctor went back in to see if the post had fused with the bone. Once he was satisfied, he screwed the abutment into the post, and finished up by cementing the crown into place. When people say implants are as easy as 1-2-3, run the other way, because they're full of crap. It's a long process, but it's totally worth it. I haven't thought about my implant before writing this post, and that's because I see my implant as if it was a real tooth. The reason is that it has acted like a real tooth since it was set up two years ago. I eat everything I ate before I lost the tooth, and with no worries.

If you know any other dental prosthetic that can claim that, I'd like to know what it is. Dentures don't come close, and bridges require destroying another tooth to fix the missing one. Implants are no longer the wave of the future, they are the gold standard by which all other cosmetic dental services are measure against.

If you are in the market for a solution to a missing tooth, or even missing teeth, then you need to give The pros a call. If they can help me, then they can definitely help you.﻿﻿